When Bill decided to invite Binky Marks from the People’s Cooperative Bookstore on Pender to run his paperback department, the book community was startled, even Jim Douglas, a close friend and admirer of Binky’s: “For by now, Duthie’s was clearly the bookstore of choice for the clerisy and the moneyed Vancouverites. Bill always looked elegant and cool and poised. Binky, on the other hand, ran a communist bookstore, scurried about dropping and losing things, and he looked like hell.… But Bill knew, as most of us did, that Binky was a fine bookman and a lovable if eccentric character. Somehow Bill persuaded him to get his teeth fixed and to dress a bit smarter—not a lot, mind you—and the Paperback Cellar with Binky in charge became as fashionable as upstairs.” Jim Douglas
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